Humans are in chaos, despicable outsiders.

The young man's face showed an expression of utter disbelief.

【Um... My esteemed deity—are you serious???】

[Central Island, No. 99, Luxury Residential Area 1, there's a European-style villa there—the person lives there, but whether they're home or not, I don't know.]

The girl paused, as if she had thought of something, and added a sentence.

[Remember to be polite—the lady taking care of Miss Nimty Apocalypse is a very important person!]

How prestigious is it?

Chen Tianwu asked curiously.

[Karen Kaslana, the nominal fiancée of Archbishop Otto Apocalypse.]

That's not one....

The young man's voice sounded somewhat puzzled.

[Is it a dead person?]

The girl's voice finished the young man's sentence...

[That's right, there are some strange records in the World Serpent's archives. I once stumbled upon that Miss Kallen... She was hailed as a figure who inspired the modern Valkyrie spirit. She should have been sacrificed 500 years ago due to the irrational actions of that Archbishop of Schicksal.]

【You're right, but... you're talking to a god right now, Mr. Chen Tianwu... The divine will that was once unimaginable is now in your mind, spouting nonsense... What's so strange about a dead person being resurrected? Perhaps history is wrong? After all, your records only say that Saint Karen has disappeared, haven't they?】

【Uh... that's certainly true of your reasoning, Miss Goddess... but I'm still a little surprised to hear about legendary figures still active in the world five hundred years from now...】

Isn't your lord Kevin the same? He's even that lady's ancestor—

[Um...this is different. Lord Kevin is an immortal fusion warrior...but his descendants aren't.]

[In short... that's all there is to it, right?]

Chen Tianwu confirmed with Miss Shenming.

If you're really bored, you could also get a cat; Ningdi really likes cats—or you could bring some cat food?

Chapter 372 Have you heard? A new guest has arrived in Paradise—

"It's been a long time, Ancestor Su..."

"Ah, there's also Himeko Murata-sensei?"

Inside the underground chapel of the World Serpents, almost the entire serpent force had been wiped out, leaving only these two idle individuals with no official positions to guard the place.

"Long time no see, Miss Snow—"

The squinting Awakener nodded to Snow Apocalypse, who could be considered an uninvited guest in a sense.

"Oh, it's Snow—give me a little something?"

Meanwhile, Himeko casually put her arm around the blonde girl's shoulder and asked her for something that all of Himeko's students knew... and Miss Snow happened to be one of those who knew it very well—

"Look, we found this deep inside Dad's collection room... The bottle is quite nice, but I don't know what kind of wine it is."

As Himeko rubbed her forehead against her cheek, the blonde girl, looking utterly exasperated, pulled out a pure gold bottle, ornately engraved with patterns, from her person.

“Snow, the collection you got from Bishop Otto? It must be something good! — Let me tell you, this World Serpent has a long history. You can see all sorts of rare and precious things that you can’t usually see in Destiny, and you can also find a lot of interesting historical truths that Destiny has hidden.”

"But they didn't keep a single bottle of wine—when I asked that guy called Gray Snake if he had any good wine to satisfy my craving, guess what he said?"

Himeko, with her arm around Snow's shoulder, began to pour out her grievances—

"Oh... how did that masked man reply to you, Himeko?"

Intrigued by Himeko's words, Snow waited curiously for her to continue...

"Reply... I don't know if the masked man was stumped by my question or what, he just stood there for ages. I thought he was going to crash, and I was about to go up and pat him when he forced out, 'Miss Himeko, do I look like someone who can drink?'"

"Pfft-"

"Logically speaking, that's definitely not right... that mask is practically welded onto his face..."

Snow nodded, with an amused smile.

"Haha, that's right. Anyway, I can't imitate his tone, otherwise I would imitate it for you—but speaking of which, Dr. Su, is there really no alcohol or anything like that in World Snake?"

After laughing, Himeko looked at Mr. Su, who was sitting calmly to the side.

"...?"

"Alcohol...? Not many of the Thirteen Heroes of Chasing Fire are actually fond of drinking... Kevin may drink, but it's more of a formality at banquets, not really a hobby—"

"Mebius and Vervie, as researchers, usually abstain from alcohol—although at any banquet they attend, if they do drink alcohol, the banquet is practically doomed..."

Seemingly recalling some strange past experience, Su's face showed a mixture of helplessness and lingering fear...

"As for Miss Eden... she does indeed love wine, and has her own unique taste—however, she can't brew it, and she has a habit of giving things away when she's drunk..."

"Among the fusion warriors still in existence, Kevin, Hua, and I all received gifts from that Lady Eden—alcohol, as a luxury item in that era, was naturally available."

"However, these gifts are now more of a memento to remember the deceased... If Himeko would like to try the fine wines of the last era, I do carry a bottle with me—not many, but enough to know their taste."

The enlightened one took out a small, sealed bottle from his person, placed it in his palm, and handed it over.

"Ah... Since this is something from an old friend of Mr. Su's, I won't take it from him. The meaning of this gift is more important than the wine itself, but rather the meaning that the giver herself attached to it."

"Yes, what Ms. Himeko said makes sense... However, some of them might remain in Paradise, right?"

Su thought for a moment and gave another answer.

"Kosmo and Gretchen are both children... We usually don't allow them to drink alcohol, so naturally they don't... But Pado does have a habit?"

"In her own words, it's like a cunning cat having three dens? That's a strange way of putting it."

Su shook his head and, sensing the two's curious gazes, offered an explanation.

"That child likes to hide the valuable items she collects in strange places—this World Serpent base is modeled after the Firemoth base where the Heroes last operated. Naturally, there would be treasures hidden by Miss Phyllis..."

"Um... is it really okay to steal from Miss Phyllis?"

Himeko was stunned for a moment...

"That's no need for Miss Himeko Murata to worry about... As for Miss Pathophilis's things... well, how should I put it..."

Su began to ponder how to describe the cat that had been abused far from home, leaving behind a sliver of its good name in the world...

"Were they all borrowed?"

Snow noticed Sue's predicament and picked up where he left off...

"Yes...that's right...borrowed—"

Su nodded, subtly replacing the derogatory term with a neutral one, successfully preserving the reputation of Padofelis in front of Miss Himeko, which might not actually exist.

"So, Miss Pado might still have a lot of 'treasures' hidden here that haven't been discovered yet?"

Ji Zinuo nodded thoughtfully, her eyes beginning to light up—

"That's right, but Phyllis prefers low-alcohol fruit wine... So, if you do find any wine, Miss Himeko, you'd better smell it first... Fruit wine, theoretically speaking, can't be stored for a full 50,000 years."

"Fruit wine, huh? I get it... But I still prefer strong liquor to my family. Strong liquor is just more exciting to drink!"

"But it's still bad for your body... Even though Himeko is a fusion warrior now, you can't do anything too reckless—"

The red-haired female teacher's words were interrupted by the blonde girl who had her arm around her shoulder—the student's murmurs made Himeko surrender successfully.

"Occasionally, it's just occasionally. You kids, really, you all want to control my drinking habits..."

"By the way, Snow, what brings you here?"

To avoid being nagged by her students any longer, Himeko decisively changed the subject—

"What about me?"

"I must enter the Land of Past Bliss... to seek an answer, an answer that only the original Herrscher could provide—"

From the Sea: Chapter 373 Kaslana the Knight of Justice - A Backstab!

Coral Island City

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Karen?"

Following instructions from a blonde goddess who wished to remain anonymous, Chen Tianwu soon knocked on the door of a villa in the upscale residential area of ​​Central Island.

"you are?"

The door was opened by a woman whose blue eyes warily scanned the face of the strange young man. It seemed that if she sensed anything amiss, she would beat the disheveled man in front of her, who looked as if he had just escaped from some incident.

The Honkai energy fluctuations emanating from the person in front of her alerted Ms. Kallen.

"This is a potentially dangerous individual," the Holy Maiden of Destiny tentatively concluded about the somewhat disheveled but ambitious young man, intending to see what profound insights he had to offer.

[Hmm...just like the records in the World Serpent Literature, standard white hair and blue eyes, and this face shape is almost identical—if she changed into modern clothes and wandered around among the Valkyries of the Kaslana family a few times, I reckon I wouldn't be able to tell which one is the Saintess...]

As Karen sized up the young man before her, he was also sizing up the girl-like figure before him... [a married woman?]

[This lady doesn't look over 500 years old at all... But it's best not to ask about this...]

Thinking about how his boss had kicked his disguised box in a fit of rage after being called "grandma," the young man wisely decided not to step on any landmines that these beautiful women might be aware of... or rather, landmines that all women might be aware of...

[This guy looks more and more like he's been beaten up and just escaped... and he even has Honkai energy on him... Could he be some kind of terrorist or cultist...?]

Kallen recalled certain cults that worshipped Honkai creations and had been rampant five hundred years ago during the Black Death...

"Hello, sir? May I ask who you are?"

It was Karen who broke the silence after they had been sizing each other up—

"Ahem... You must be Miss Karen Kaslana, right?"

The saintess's voice pulled the dazed young man back to reality, and seeing the rather ominous look on the woman's face, Night Owl immediately began his struggle—

"That's right, who are you—"

Upon hearing the young man directly state her name, Karen frowned even more deeply... as if she were preparing to take action.

“Um… Your Excellency, please calm down… I am Night Owl, a cadre of World Serpent. You can also call me Chen Tianwu. Like you, I am a member fighting against the Honkai Organization.”

Seeing that Miss Kallen was about to hit someone, Comrade Night Owl, who had heard a little about Kaslana's superhuman strength, immediately backed down and tried to get on Kallen's good side while introducing himself.

[Hiss... I wonder if this Miss Kallen even knows the name of the World Serpent. I hope she doesn't mistake me for some unknown member of a Honkai cult and beat me up... I really wouldn't dare fight back... Good sister, please have mercy on us, we're all warriors fighting against Honkai...]